This chapter traces the development of Swedish children’s film from the focal point of the national discourse in Sweden. Children’s films in Sweden, especially those with a high audience appeal, tend to be a part of the national discourse and to promote ideas about Sweden and Swedishness, as well as entice pleasurable feelings associated with the Swedish nation and people. In the films based on the work of Astrid Lindgren, this is accomplished through picturesque renditions of a pastoral “patriotic landscape” and thematizing ideas of community in a way that invites the audience to equate, cognitively and emotionally, ideal local communities with the national community. Lindgren’s films are discussed in the context of children’s film in Sweden at large to illustrate an historical arc from future-oriented nation-building to nostalgia.